Tzaw1
Airman 1st Class
But KOZLOWSKi had the Continental boxer engine. This plane has radial.
Perhaps he was rebuilt
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Perhaps he was rebuilt
verner
Airman 1st Class
It's been a few days so: It' a Mohawk Pinto.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Nice verner, never even heard of it.
Marcogrifo
Airman 1st Class
Hmm, that get a familiar look in some way...but I can't recognize it at the moment
G'day mate!
Italian, yes. Piaggio, no. Gotta be honest, until today I never knew this plane existed and having prided myself on knowing just about every aircraft that served during WW2 I was very much surprised. You being an airliner buff I'll tell you that's how this bomber started off. According to the article I got this from NO photos exist but that was written 33 years ago, so who knows? Happy googling, I'm off to bed!
Italian, yes. Piaggio, no. Gotta be honest, until today I never knew this plane existed and having prided myself on knowing just about every aircraft that served during WW2 I was very much surprised. You being an airliner buff I'll tell you that's how this bomber started off. According to the article I got this from NO photos exist but that was written 33 years ago, so who knows? Happy googling, I'm off to bed!
Marcogrifo
Airman 1st Class
Aha, no reason to be surprised, my friend, because I'm utterly sure that was a bare "paper plane"
I don't think Italy was allowed to built bombers after WWII (we lost the war, after all), even if at a prototype stage.
So that might be some late war project that never went beyond the paper stage...
Anyway I agree with Waynos, that looks coming from Savoia-Marchetti's, or Caproni's ateliers
I'll dig into my books for further info and if I find something I'll post here.
Cheers
Spot on Wayne. The SIAI- Marchetti SM 95B.
Looking forward to what you find Marcogrifo, appreciate any effort! As I stated above, the article mentions that it was built and flown in 1945. It retained the wings, engines and tail assembly of the SM 95 transport version but married to a new, deeper fuselage. Armament was four 12.7-mm Breda SAFAT machine guns.
"Unfortunately, no photographs of this prototype are available."
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
It almost looks more like a 4 engined SM.82 then the SM.95
That's a great find, the Piaggio P.108 was the only 4 engined Italian bomber I was aware of.
That's a great find, the Piaggio P.108 was the only 4 engined Italian bomber I was aware of.
Marcogrifo
Airman 1st Class
And I must apologize, it seems like sometimes fingers are faster than brain!
Yes a SM.95B prototype did his mayden flight in 1945
Anyway, I'm not completely wrong, because the develop (or better, the completion) of that "bomber" was a dispensation from peace treaty agreements
An excerpt from an article about SM.95 I've found on an issue of "Aerofan" magazine:
Yes, you're right, that is precisely the look (and the essence) of that project
The profile shown in Graeme's post seems, I think, a speculation about the look the SM.95B should have had.
But these below are "the original drawings" found by the Aerofan's staff
Quite a merge between SM.82 fuselage and SM.95 wings, isn't it?
And me too
Finally, the only two known photos of SM.95B
Cheers
Emilio Lafuente
Airman
Really brilliant research work!!!
Thank you to all of you involved!!
Thank you to all of you involved!!
Marcogrifo
Airman 1st Class
Thanks for your kind words but I did nothing more than spending some time looking through magazines...
Your welcomeGraeme said:
Unfortunately those images are of a very poor quality
The idea of a thread about rare italian warbirds sounds interesting...
Cheers
AMCKen
Senior Airman
Finally, the only two known photos of SM.95B
Cheers
P-39 and Spitfire also in the bottom photo?
Marcogrifo
Airman 1st Class
Yes, italian airforce got a lot of second or third hand allied aircrafts (P-39s, P-47s, Spits, P-51s, P-38s and other twin-engined) at the end of the war.
Cheers
